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Vestris with black anthers. It resembles that good old variety in some 

 respects, but the marking is more dense, and it is smoother on the top. 

 Medusa, a feathered bybloemen, yellow at the base when young, but 

 bleaches, and is then fine. Cleopatra, a good bybloemen. May's Sir 

 Joseph Paxton is a good bizarre. Dixon's llowena, a fine feathered 

 rose ; also Dixon's Index, a bybloemen, appeared to possess some fine 

 properties. The good old varieties in the bed were also unusually fine. 

 We remarked as extra good — Everard, Vivid, Royal Sovereign, Pilot, 

 Colbert, Strong's King, Strong's Queen, Van Amburgh, finer than we 

 had previously seen it ; May's Ulysses, which appeared to be a good 

 strain of Brown's Ulysses, Hex Indearium, Austria, Princess Royal, 

 Camuse de Craix, Heroine, Polyphemus, Devonshire, with many others, 

 in the very best condition. Mr. Saunders has also broken some very 

 promising flowers, but they are not yet named. 



Mr. Groom, Clapham Rise, had a fair average bloom. If not 

 strong they were more regular than we often see them near London. 

 Mr. Groom's bed is more celebrated for its great length than for 

 brilliancy of colour, as the flowers are too light in the marking 

 to please our northern friends ; yet many in this state are very delicate 

 and beautiful. In this class we must give the first place to Duchess of 

 Cambridge, a fourth-row bybloemen, of fine form. The base of the 

 flower is a little creamy in its young state, but bleaches white. The 

 feather is very lightly laid on, and a little broken ; the white is very 

 pure. Ondine, a bright scarlet rose, feathered ; a very showy bed 

 flower, but has dark stamens, and is impure at the base. Marquis of 

 Bristol, a sweet feathered bizarre of the Devonshire class, of fine form. 

 Eurydice is a good bizarre, in colour resembling Charles Brown, but a 

 little cramped at the top. Dr. Horner is another good bizarre, the 

 shape of Captain White. Lord Raglan, another of this class, is a large 

 bold variety. Louis Napoleon, a third-row bizarre, is a fine flower. 

 Fleur de Marie, rose, with very solid marking, but not of good form. 

 Baron Gersdorff, a first-row rose, good form, rather heavily marked. 

 We also noticed some excellent specimens of Groom's Queen Victoria, 

 and a seedling bizarre, the shape of Vivid. 



At Mr. Lawrence's, Hampton, there was a very good bloom. Mr. 

 Lawrence's bed included some fine blooms of very rare varieties ; at the 

 head of these is George Hayward, the finest of all the red bizarres.' 

 This was figured by us in our last volume, and has justly become an 

 established favourite. Charles Brown, Everard, Arlette, Pandora, 

 Byzantium, Queen of the North, Kate Connor, with many old 

 favourites, were in very good condition. A part of Mr. Lawrence's bed 

 was sold by auction ; the sale was not well attended, the day being wet 

 and cold. 



Mr. Goldham also sold a small bed of 65 rows, including those 

 varieties so long held entirely in the hands of Mr. Goldham, namely, 

 Fanny Kemble, Charles Kemble, John Kemble, Mrs. Siddons, Napo- 

 leon, Marshal Soult, bybloemen Fortunatus, and many others not before 

 distributed. They were very badly grown and bloomed ; therefore it 

 would scarcely be fair to criticise these new flowers ; but in the con- 

 dition then seen not one could pass as second-rate. A bloom of Francis 



